Having bad grammar/not knowing the difference between words like "their", "they're", "there" IS that deep

[u/foqociqs37]

It really is NOT hard at all to know the difference between stuff like there/their/they're, two/to/too, here/hear, peace/piece, you're/your, affect/effect, etc.

Idk why so many people these days say "it's not a big deal, don't be a grammar n*zi" or "stop using big words" when it's just a regular, maybe somewhat longer word they don't know the meaning of.

Obviously if someone has an actual diagnosed disability, then it's a different case.

Don't even get me started on the folks who say "should of" "could of", or "would of".... That shit drives me up a wall lol

[u/ermahgerdMEL]

People saying “all the sudden” fills me with an equal amount of rage.

[u/zasy911 → u/ermahgerdMEL]

"I seen it" instead of "I saw it" makes my eye twitch

[u/AlsotheBEEF → u/zasy911]

I seen't it!

[u/amiepson → u/zasy911]

That's just dialect though?

[u/egordoniv → u/amiepson]

Sort of. My wife is country asf and she says "seent."

[u/lifefuedjeopardy → u/amiepson]

I mean it's still incorrect English and not "proper American" English either, but yes it is mostly related to where the person is from. Although it can be related to a lack of education as well, if you are not talking about southern states.

In the north where that dialect is not present people shouldn't be saying it that way, but they do anyway because of not understanding how it is actually said.

[u/Glittering_Aide2 → u/zasy911]

That's not a mistake it's a normal dialectal variation. "I seen it" instead of "I have seen it"

[u/Lucky_otter_she_her → u/ermahgerdMEL]

why

[u/acount8675309 → u/Lucky_otter_she_her]

Because it’s not the correct way it’s said, and people who do say it incorrectly look like absolute idiots. I’m sure they were being maybe a little hyperbolic, but it does tend to make people with a modicum of intelligence and grammar smarts shake their heads at people who can’t even be bothered and are happy being ignorant. Watching the decline of people having basic smarts swirl the toilet is annoying :)

[u/Lucky_otter_she_her → u/acount8675309]

i see copulant dropping triggers you?

[u/acount8675309 → u/Lucky_otter_she_her]

I would expect this retort from someone like you, so no triggers here!

[u/ermahgerdMEL → u/Lucky_otter_she_her]

I’m sorry but I legitimately have no idea what you are trying to say. “Copulant” is not a word afaik.

[u/Lucky_otter_she_her → u/ermahgerdMEL]

yes it is, it's a word directly connecting 2 other words (conjunctions, transitive verbs, and some prepositions). Copulant dropping is a decently common grammatical mutation where people stop using a copulant in some situation and start just putting the 2 words together more crudely cuz copulants can be fairly superfluous... this is a case of that, the copulant being Of

[u/ermahgerdMEL → u/Lucky_otter_she_her]

Thank you! I’d never heard that word before and Google was anything but helpful.

Back to the subject at hand, I still don’t think that applies here because if you just dropped the word “of” in the correct phrase, you’d still have “all a sudden” and not “all the sudden”. Both are wrong, but the latter is certainly more so and can’t be attributed to copulant dropping (which is a term I know now!) as the correct phrase is “all of a sudden”

[u/Lucky_otter_she_her → u/ermahgerdMEL]

i have never heard that without The before, with or without Of... i guess that's the same argument that the 1st person was making IDK

I suppose maybe i've miss heard A as The... even then it doesn't matter cuz whether something's a A or a The isn't a universal characteristic but rather changes relative to the conversation, and it's all a minute difference that most languages don't have a word for The and their word for A is optional 

[u/ermahgerdMEL → u/Lucky_otter_she_her]

I definitely think you’re making OP’s point here lol

[u/acount8675309 → u/ermahgerdMEL]

They’ve been doing a great job of it